THAT WAS · Pune · 10 January 2026
AI-native vs AI PM
Is an AI-native PM a new job, or the same job with better tools? Twelve of us, one long table, and no agreement by the third coffee. The one thing everyone signed off on: the people getting promoted this year are doing both.
- Where
- Cafe Bahar
- When
- Saturday, 10:30 am
- Who
- 12 at the table
- Cost
- ₹0
Hover a chair. The company, never the name. 12 chairs filled. Companies below.
— AROUND THIS TABLE —
People from 7 companies
Who they are stays at the table. Where they came from is the whole afternoon.
- Procore Technologies
- iMocha
- Curious PM
- VOZIQ AI
- Morgan Stanley
- Independent
- Lillia
FROM THE AFTERNOON
The prints.
2 photos, left on the table the way the café would have found them.
WHAT WENT ROUND
Three questions.
Three rounds of coffee.
They went round the table, in order. Nobody presented. This is what came back.
AI-native, or AI PM?
“The table split in ten minutes and stayed split.”
What does the model do in your week?
“Writes the first draft of everything. Nobody lets it decide.”
What changes on Monday?
“One thing each: an eval, a trace, or a prompt that lives in the repo.”
THE BILL
Settled, as always.
Coffee, chai, whatever the café did well, and two hours of the table. The bill came to us, which is the whole arrangement.
- 0112 chairs, 12 given out, 0 kept for the ones who turn up anyway.
- 0212 people sat down.
- 03Nothing was recorded, posted or tagged.
CURIOUS PM
coffee meetup · receipt no. 623
hosted by Vinit G
- 1 × Table for 12
- ₹0
- 1 × Saturday, 10 January 2026
- ₹0
- 1 × 10:30 am to about lunch
- ₹0
- 1 × Cafe Bahar,
- ₹0
- Coffee, chai, snacks
- ₹0
- Slides, pitches, name tags
- —
12 at the table · settled by Curious PM
SETTLED · COME TO THE NEXT ONE
Every other Saturday · a different café each time
SAME TABLE, OTHER DAYS
More coffee in Pune.
The next one is somewhere else, with the same eight chairs.